(unstressed) IPA(key): /kənst/ Rhymes: -ænst <span class="searchmatch">canst</span> (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of can <span class="searchmatch">Canst</span> thou show me the way? 1849, Matthew...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">canst</span> can'st Obsolete form of <span class="searchmatch">canst</span>. O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree! Much pleasure thou can'st give me cants, casn't, scant...
George Swinnock, The Incomparableness of God: 'It is as high as heaven, what <span class="searchmatch">canst</span> thou do?' It is as the highnesses of heaven: take all the heights and elevations...
IPA(key): /kæzn̩t/ casn't (West Country, Bristol) Contraction of cannot. Thee casn't see I. (You can't see me.) can'st, <span class="searchmatch">canst</span>, cants, scant...
cant cants third-person singular simple present indicative of cant can'st, <span class="searchmatch">canst</span>, casn't, scant IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkans] cants plural...
singular simple present indicative of can The standard form has at all times been <span class="searchmatch">canst</span>. The form cannest is uncommon and chiefly due to hypercorrection....
contayning the Sayinges of the Wyse: Although, for a while, thy vyce thou may hide Yet <span class="searchmatch">canst</span> thou not alwayes keepe it unspide […] unipeds, unspied...
1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]: I pronounce thee a hovering temporizer, that <span class="searchmatch">Canst</span> with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both....
Matthew 8:2 Dryhten, ġyf þū wylt, þū mē ġeclǣnsian. Lord, if thou wilt, thou <span class="searchmatch">canst</span> make me clean. to purify Conjugation of ġeclǣnsian (weak, class 2)...
aiþþau swart gataujan. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou <span class="searchmatch">canst</span> not make one hair white or black. (KJV) 𐍃𐍅𐌰𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌶𐌻 (swartizl, “(dark)...